Training the best

Charles Flowers was among the first round of cadets to graduate from the training program at Tuskegee and the first African-American, miliary-trained flight instructor hired for the program. He trained more than ten percent of the 994 pilots who were trained at Tuskegee Army Air Filed. Mr. Flowers was the first president of the student government association at North Carolina Central Univeristy in Durham, North Carolina and one of a few living Americans to have received the honor of having a high school bear their name, Charles Herbert Flowers High School in Springdale, Maryland.